3 NOVEMBER 1883, Page 24

Careers from English History : England and Spain. By C.

M. Yonge. (1facmillan.)—Miss Yonge tells in her own vigorous style some forty stories belonging to the last period of the sixteenth century, and to the three years of the seventeenth century which brought Elizabeth's reign to a close. "England and Spain" is the title which she gives to her volume, and these two countries are certainly the chief actors in the drama which she describes; but

France and Scotland also appear, for we have, among others, the tales of the " Kirk of Field " and of the " St. Bartholomew." The stories are detached, but a sufficiently clear thread of history joins them together. Volumes such as this do not supersede the severer study of history, but they make it very much more pleasant.